I know that all of you come to my blog for model horse news. Some may even get upset by me bringing real horse news to my blog. However, if you don't read all my blog posts, I'm not going to be offended. If you're here solely for the models, that's perfectly fine. Scroll on past this post. A few have asked me about my auction endeavors and this is what this post is about. Attending auctions is always a gamble. You never know if you'll come back with an empty trailer if you can't find anything in your budget, so I'm grateful that our new neighbors often rescue horses on the side as well and came with us as guides. As you've probably read, I saved all the earnings from my model sales the month of October for this day to try to pull a horse from the slaughter pipeline. Thanks to your help, we were able to save TWO horses. Y'all rock! One of them, a gorgeous black and white Tennessee Walker named Dixie, is currently living with our neighbors. The other, miss Molly, will be staying with us. The horse we kept is probably the flashiest horse I'll ever own. She is a chestnut pinto Tennessee Walker with one brown eye, one blue eye and mapping who was retired from giving public trail rides at a state park. At the auction she arrived malnourished and covered in burrs. Thankfully she has a hearty appetite but the burrs are going to take some time to remove. After being rented to numerous people to give them the time of their life, she is now only going to go on occasional rides around our farm. No more hard work for this poor gal. Which reminds me that Breyer needs to update their Bluegrass Bandit mold, their only modern TWH mold. Who here agrees? We most likely won't be attending another auction for a while, probably not until the spring or late winter at least, since the grass won't be growing as quickly and we'll be feeding hay soon. My business profits in the meantime will be going towards maintenance for our current rescues and putting new stalls in our barn. Molly's information will be added to my Rescues page and her condition will be updated in a few months on there so as to keep my real horses separated from my models since the majority of you all come here for the models. However I did want to prove that my business profits are going to a good cause. I appreciate your support!
Diane K Glover
10/30/2022 12:50:23 am
God bless you for rescuing her. What a beautiful horse. You would think a retired trail horse would be a highly desirable horse. Probably pretty bombproof on the trail/ and my she is pretty! Comments are closed.
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